The Mortal Creeps

The strange world of Zane Eldridge: crazy comic book mythology, beer, swearing, self-aware self-righteousness, heavy metal, moral philosophizing and slightly warped evolutionary psychology. His world is peopled by crafty suburbanites, sadists, masochists, smarmy pseudo-intellectuals, semi-celebrities; and most of all, his sexy roommate Tiff Stokely, and his religious fanatic cousin Julie Kreel, the self-declared Popette of the First Church of Jesus Christ, Mutant Hero.

The Mortal Creeps is at once an examination of human self-righteous and of the first person narrative form itself. It can be described as a kinder, gentler A Clockwork Orange meets a less kind, more violent Catcher in the Rye. It takes the device of first person narration to task on its presumptuousness, with absurd, hilarious, and thought-provoking results; while providing a terse, kaleidoscopic view of modern city life and creating a bold, striking and original set of characters.

Read it and creep.

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